- "Sterling Brown Ain't Dead Nothing . . . He Ain't Even Passed," by John F. Callahan
(1989) [Sterling A. Brown] (100%)
A reminiscence and tribute, making the point that “it is too early to remember Sterling Brown in the manner of formal, festscrift remembrance.”
- "The New Negro Poet and the Nachal Man: Sterling Brown's Folk Odyssey," by John S. Wright
(1989) [Sterling A. Brown] (96%)
Provides an overview of Brown's activities and aims as folklorist. Brown sought to “correlate folklore with social and ethnic history.”
- "Sterling Brown and the 'Vestiges of the Blues: The Role of Race in English Verse Structure," by Michael Tomasek Manson
(1996) [Sterling Brown] (96%)
“[D]esiring to produce a material object (a poem), Brown refashioned the materials at hand (the blues and the sonnet), which were themselves products of material history (the ‘economics of slavery’ which produced the blues and the bourgeois hegemony which produced both the sonnet and iambic pentameter). The resulting poem captures Brown’s historical moment, a moment in which he redefined the material possibilities within the United States first by partially accepting an Anglo-American subjectivity. . . .”
- "Sterling A. Brown, Remembered," by John Edgar Tidwell
(1989) [Sterling A. Brown] (96%)
A reminiscence of a visit to Brown's house to conduct an interview. Focuses on how much Brown accomplished.
- "The Literary Ballads of Sterling A. Brown," by Gary Smith
(1989) [Sterling A. Brown] (95%)
In Brown's poetry, “the essential and perhaps more meaningful dialogue” is between “old and new,” and “his choice of ballads and blues, as poetic forms, is reflective of his need to invoke continuities between the past and the present.” Through the poems, he is able to deal with “personal deep-seated longings for socio-economic justice” in the context of “public performances.”
- "Oh, Didn't He Ramble! Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989)," by John Edgar Tidwell
(1989) [Sterling A. Brown] (95%)
The introduction to a special section on Brown in this issue of BALF, for which Tidwell was guest-editor.
- "Sterling Brown and the `Vestiges' of the Blues: The Role of Race in English Verse Structure," by Michael Tomasek Manson
(1996) [Sterling Brown] (95%)
The verse structure devised by Brown, joining the blues and the sonnet, “captures [his] historical moment, a moment in which he redefined the material possibilities within the United States first by partially accepting an Anglo-American subjectivity.”
- "Remembering Prof. Sterling A. Brown, 1901-1989," by Sherley Anne Williams
(1989) [Sterling A. Brown] (95%)
A reminiscence of a conversation during an evening at the home of Brown and his wife.
- "Irony without Condescension: Sterling A. Brown's Nod to Robert Frost," by Mark Jeffreys
(1996) [Sterling Brown] (95%)
Frost “seems to have encouraged [Brown] . . . to present the `true dialect' of the folk as being just as filled with stoicism, pride, and the capacity for ironic self-awareness as it is with verbal music and striking tropes.”
- "Oh, Didn't He Ramble! Sterling Brown (1901-1989)," by John Edgar Tidwell
(1989) [Sterling A. Brown] (95%)
The introduction to a special section on Brown in this issue of BALF, for which Tidwell was guest-editor.
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